About this post.txt
This is a special post, special in the sense that it not for everyone.
Certainly not for those who look for a certain technical quality level.
It is more of a documentary that possibly could appeal to someone with a minimum of curiosity.
The idea of posting this came following my recent request for help in identfying the video clip of a Kyrie from one of Mozart's Missa brevis.
Thanks to a friend, I now know that the Kyrie in that clip is from the rather obscure Missa brevis K 115.
A subsequent Google search led me to the conclusion that this was indeed a more rarely performed Mozart mass.
As a matter of fact, even details about this mass don't seem too clear in the various links I found in Google. Further more I found few Youtube clips, none with trebles.
I had a notion that the PCMR might have sung that mass many years ago, when Sunday mass at the Oratory in Montreal was broadcast. I usually taped the music under primitive conditions (open end reels) which I later transfered to music tapes or cassettes, and even later that I ripped to CDs.
Among the "unidentified" works I had thus saved, I found a version of that K 115 Missa brevis performed on Easter Sunday 1964.
Of course it is of very low technical quality but as I wrote above, the curious-minded might like the chance to hear it.
As for the Agnus Dei, all I had on tape is a short excerpt (0:38). I think the solemn mass was longer than usual and that the radio station ended the broadcast at that time.
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